Gabriel Ostrolucký
Lead Backend Engineer at Proxy-Cheap
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
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Top SchoolGabriel Ostrolucký is a Lead Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, testable backend systems and driving code quality across SaaS and enterprise environments. He prefers pragmatic engineering principles (DRY, YAGNI, KISS) and has led teams responsible for critical authentication, user and client management services that power multiple frontends. A regular contributor to high-profile PHP projects like Symfony and Doctrine, his open-source fixes emphasize performance, maintainability and real-world developer ergonomics (e.g., optimizing call patterns and improving exception handling). He thrives in CI/CD-driven, containerized teams that value automated testing and clear SCRUM practices, and has a track record of upgrading legacy stacks to modern PHP and framework versions. Known for rooting teams in strong quality standards, he pairs hands-on refactoring with mentoring and operational rigor to reduce technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Process Automation and Informatization in Industry, Engineer's Degree, Process Automation and Informatization in Industry at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveHigh School, Information and telecommunication services, Excellent, High School, Information and telecommunication services, Excellent at Stredná priemyselná škola elektrotechnická, Liptovský Hrádok
Slovak, English, Czech, German
Github Skills (48)
unit-testing10
debugging10
code-optimization10
debug10
react-components10
lib10
object-mapping10
redis10
symfony-bundle10
console10
testing10
component-development10
doctrine10
code-standards10
http10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
doctrine/DoctrineBundle
Nov 2017 - Jan 2023
Symfony Bundle for Doctrine ORM and DBAL
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 338 reviews, 237 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily focused on fixing compatibility issues with the Symfony web profiler, especially related to DoctrineBundle's integration. Their contributions included ensuring full compatibility with Symfony 4 and testing across various PHP and Symfony versions. They also implemented improvements for backtrace callstack, skipping generating links for missing files, and fixing deprecation failures related to doctrine:mapping:import command. Furthermore, the user added a feature switch to trigger the SchemaValidator in the Collector and addressed various deprecations throughout the codebase.
doctrine-ormbundlesymfony-bundlephpdbal
snc/SncRedisBundle
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
A Redis bundle for Symfony supporting Predis and PhpRedis
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 22 reviews, 89 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to improving the SncRedisBundle for Symfony. Their work included fixing RedisCluster logging for Predis, addressing memory leaks when logging, and ensuring compatibility with Doctrine and PHPUnit tests. Furthermore, they addressed various issues, including those related to moved responses in logs, and removed unsupported functions. These changes enhanced the bundle's stability and compatibility.
phpredisredisbundlephpsymfony-bundle
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